Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last request of nature-loving Swithin, 9th-Century Bishop of Winchester, was for burial under the eaves of his church, where footsteps and raindrops would fall on his humble grave. A century later the clergy, having erected a new edifice, decided to move him indoors. One legend says this so infuriated St. Swithin that it rained for 40 days after...
Should the committee's warning be translated into practice, there will be no lack of aspirants to fill the vacancies. The club's waiting list is so long many candidates reach the grave without attaining the Athenaeum...
...world was beginning to realize that Britain had grave reasons for her reluctance. Her overseas debt alone would be more than ?4 billion by war's end. But nearly all of this debt was locked tight within the sterling area-the British dominions and economic dependencies. For instance, Britain owed India a billion pounds. India wanted dollars to buy in the U.S. But if Britain released dollars, that would result in Britain owing the U.S. instead of India...
With Britain's general election ballots still uncounted in sealed boxes, many Conservatives had eleventh-hour jitters. Many Laborites believed the Tory majority would be unworkably small. They prepared (somewhat prematurely) to bury the Conservative Party and dance on the grave...
...Grave Repercussions. This was big news far beyond Britain. In Europe, seething with social unrest and social politics, it might have grave repercussions. If Britain goes far left, it might, as, Winston Churchill had warned, bowl over Europe's precarious political balances "like nine pins" and precipitate the Continent into new unrest...